Professor
Claudia Rapp
Most Helpful Review
Rapp is very knowledgeable about Western Civilization, and the class wasn't too bad. However, her lectures are a bit boring (since she's a tad boring). Midterm and Final are relatively easy, since all you have to do is memorize (she gives you a list key words to help you study). Discussion requires a bit of reading, but really you can just skim the book, since the midterm/final's word list require only specific things. Also, you can skim the source texts also, since the discussion will point out all the key parts.
Rapp is very knowledgeable about Western Civilization, and the class wasn't too bad. However, her lectures are a bit boring (since she's a tad boring). Midterm and Final are relatively easy, since all you have to do is memorize (she gives you a list key words to help you study). Discussion requires a bit of reading, but really you can just skim the book, since the midterm/final's word list require only specific things. Also, you can skim the source texts also, since the discussion will point out all the key parts.
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Amazing. She really is. Best professor I have had at UCLA or UC Berkeley. Phenomenal. Awesome. Great. Need I go on?? Do the reading, come to class. She has organized lectures which are engaging and sometimes even personal! She really knows her stuff, too. When her computer won't hook up and she has to lecture without her power-point- no sweat! She's competent and encouraging, but no-nonsense. First time I really was motivated to work hard for the A, because from her, it MEANS something.
Amazing. She really is. Best professor I have had at UCLA or UC Berkeley. Phenomenal. Awesome. Great. Need I go on?? Do the reading, come to class. She has organized lectures which are engaging and sometimes even personal! She really knows her stuff, too. When her computer won't hook up and she has to lecture without her power-point- no sweat! She's competent and encouraging, but no-nonsense. First time I really was motivated to work hard for the A, because from her, it MEANS something.